Lecture: Jeffrey C. Fuhrer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Fri., Apr 11, 2008 - Time: 1:30 - 3:00pm

Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, Director of Research for the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston will be the guest speaker at this week's Finance Seminar. All are invited to attend.

Jeff will give an overview of two projects that are representative of his own research and an update of the Research Department's work on subprime markets. He will also briefly touch on current financial market developments.

He joined the Bank's research department in June 1992 as an assistant vice president and economist, and from 1995 to 2001 headed its Open Economy/Macro/International section. In 2000 Fuhrer was named senior vice president and monetary policy advisor, in 2001 he became director of research, and in 2006 he was named executive vice president. Fuhrer began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, first as a research assistant, and then in 1985 returned as a senior economist after earning his doctorate. His current research program focuses on the development of macroeconometric models of inflation, long-term interest rates, monetary policy, consumer spending, and the Phillips curve. Fuhrer's recent journal articles treat the importance of habit formation in consumer spending decisions, the persistence of inflation, the interaction between monetary policy and long-term interest rates, and the failure of new rational expectation models to explain business cycle fluctuations. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University.


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Location: SOM 210 (wheelchair accessible)

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Tom O'Brien
(413) 545 -5581
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